CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Wachtberg it runs 76 km to Wachtberg; allow about 2 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Remagen, Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the and back through Remagen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
South of Bonn the Kottenforst climbs onto the same ridge that carries the villages of Wachtberg and the town of Meckenheim, and the woods here feel older and quieter than the suburbs around them. Beech and oak stand over a floor of leaf mould, with springs and small streams that gather in damp hollows, and the old hunting rides still run ruler-straight through the trees. The name Villiprot is one of those forest place names that sounds Roman, and the forest does carry Roman traces: the Eifel aqueduct, which brought spring water to Cologne over about ninety-five kilometres, crossed this country, and parts of its line can be followed on walking trails.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot is where the day begins. Next is Remagen.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
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Remagen comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the. Next is back through Remagen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Remagen, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot → Remagen is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Remagen is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Remagen → Kottenforst Süd | Villiprot is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.